Today's Features

TODAYHOY
• The San Miguel County Commission has declared Monday, Oct. 10 as “Paint the County Pink Day” to promote breast cancer awareness. Decorate your business, your home and even your car with pink. People are also asked to dress in pink that day.

Members of the New Mexico Highlands University women’s basketball team and their coaches rolled up their sleeves last month and went to work painting a historic commercial building on Railroad Avenue, a MainStreet de Las Vegas Façade Squad project.

Congressman Ben Ray Luján visited the Mora Valley late last week, and he got an earful from residents on controversial issues like the closing of rural post offices and drilling. The event, which included heated discussions on controversial issues, took place at the David Cargo Library in Mora last Thursday.

The main problems that concerned the citizens present were the closing of the rural post offices, drilling in Mora County, health insurance issues, unemployment problems in the rural area and gun control.

The twists and turns of living in one place for a very long time make for interesting searches and research.

Daughter Sherry is making photo journals for my granddaughters — we all should do this — and therefore, I needed to dig through those proverbial boxes of very old photographs. What a fun time that always is!
So many of the family photos were taken by our busy mothers. They decided to record some event for history, thankfully, and the sometimes poorly lit, posed picture records so much more than they probably realized at the time.

The appeal of quick breads isn’t merely the ease. Though you have to love any baked good that is no more complicated than mixing a bunch of things together, then baking.

But it also is the adaptability and flexibility of these recipes that have earned them such a coveted place in the home kitchen. They can be flavored with nearly any combination of ingredients, from sweet all the way to savory and spicy.